Neale Ferguson ported an old release of SAMBA to OpenVM years ago. That would give you a server on VM to which you could map from Windows.
There is also, of course, the VM NFS server, which would let you mount VM content onto Linux or Unix. *But it sounds like you want CMS to be the client in this game, yes?* Let me heartily recommend the CMS NFS client built into OpenVM. I use this on a daily basis. Lets me share files in Linux land directly on CMS. I can use XEDIT on them, copy them to/from minidisks or SFS, literally anything one could do with a BFS file (an OpenVM file). I always mount NFS to CMS with translation. Depending on what you need to do, this may help or hurt. (As a rule, I don't do binary content via NFS from CMS, but that's just me.) The character set will always be an issue for this stuff. To use the CMS NFS client, you have to have a BFS root filesystem mounted. Then mount NFS directories into that tree. (The BFS root need not have a working shell and utilities for NFS to work, just a filespace with empty "mountpoint directories".) The syntax is ugly, but you can program around it. (write an EXEC ... or a shell script!) On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Does anyone know of a way to mount for reading/writing under CMS a share > on a remote server? This document: > > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245330.html > > talks about Samba for VM/ESA - and says there is a "Samba freeware package > for VM/ESA that can be downloaded from the internet" - but I sure can't find > it (and Samba.org seems to know nothing about VM/ESA or z/VM). > > My objective is to mount disk space on a remote Linux server (using any > available network protocols) such that a virtual machine running CMS can > read/write to the location using standard CMS file I/O tools. Note that a > remote SFS server is not an option as the remote location will not be > running z/VM. > > Any ideas? Does anyone know where this "Samba freeware package for > VM/ESA" lives? > > -Mike > -- -- R; <><
